[Insight-developers] MSVC 8 and native Sun compiler

[Julien Jomier]

Hi All,

I'm having an issue while trying to make ITK compile with MSVC 8 (beta 2).

The main issue is the different signatures for a function:

- in the .h
void SetSpacing(const double spacing[ImageDimension])

- in the .txx/cxx
::SetSpacing(const double spacing[Self::ImageDimension] ) 	

The native sun compiler needs the Self:: in order to compile but there 
is a bug in the MSVC 8 compiler so that it fails with:
"error C2244: 'itk::ImageAdaptor<TImage,TAccessor>::SetSpacing' : unable 
to match function definition to an existing declaration"

I think we have two options here:
1) Drop support for MSVC 8 beta 2 and hope that Microsoft will fix the 
bug in the real release (a bug report has been submitted).

2) Try to find a workaround (by using a macro?)

Let me know what you think,

Julien